Dracula - Broadway Creative Team

Don Black OBE is a highly-acclaimed, Oscar-winning lyricist. His works have included movie themes, hit songs, and numerous musicals, including three with Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tell Me on a Sunday, Aspects of Love, and Sunset Boulevard, for which he received two Tony Awards for Best Book and Lyrics, together with Christopher Hampton. Mr. Black's movie credits include themes for many James Bond films: Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man with the Golden Gun, "Surrender" from Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough. In collaboration with composer John Barry, he wrote the title song for the 1966 film Born Free, ... read more Christopher's plays, musicals and translations have won many awards including four Tonys and three Oliviers. Prizes for his screenplays include an Oscar, Hollywood Screenwriter of the Year and awards at the Cannes and Venice film festivals. Plays include Appomattox, The Talking Cure, Tales from Hollywood, The Philanthropist, Savages, Total Eclipse; adaptations from novels Youth Without God (Horvath), Embers (Marai), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Laclos); plus translations of plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Moliere, Horvath, Yasmina Reza and Florian Zeller. Screenplays include Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement, A Dangerous Method, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed. ... read more ... read more Broadway design credits include: The Addams Family, Rock of Ages, West Side Story (Revival), Bye Bye Bye Birdie, Dreamgirls (National Tour); Memphis, Gypsy (with Patti LuPone), 9 to 5 (Mark Taper Forum and Broadway), Young Frankenstein (Broadway and National Tour), The Little Mermaid, The Royal Family, After Miss Julie, Accent on Youth, Guys and Dolls (Revival), 33 Variations, Pal Joey, A Catered Affair, Minsky’s (Pre-Broadway/Mark Taper Forum), Curtains, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (Broadway and National Tour), Sunday In The Park With George, Company, Sweeney Todd, Dangerous Liaisons, The Ritz, Cymbeline, The Country Girl (Frances McDormand), The New ... read more Rob Besserer began his life in the theater as a dancer during the dance boom of the mid-1970s. After making a name for himself with the companies of Lar Lubavitch and Mark Morris, as well as with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, he left behind pure dance to try his hand at stage acting. His six projects with director/choreographer Martha Clarke helped in his transition. ... read more DOUG BESTERMAN is a three-time Tony Award winning musician with a career spanning across theatre, film, television and recording. As a Composer, Producer, Arranger, and Orchestrator, he has been privileged to work with some of the most recognizable names in the industry, including composers Mel Brooks, Alan Menken, and Marc Shaiman; recording artists Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow; and directors Rob Marshall and Susan Stroman. A veteran of 25+ Broadway shows, Besterman won the Best Orchestrations Tony Award® for Fosse, The Producers, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and was nominated for The Music Man (2000), How to Succeed in Business, and Bullets ... read more Binkley's Broadway credits includeSummer: The Donna Summer Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Come From Away (2017 Tony nomination), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 Olivier winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nomination), How to Succeed... (2011 Tony nomination), West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination). He is also the Co-Founder/Resident Lighting Designer for Parsons Dance. 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier and Canadian Dora Awards for Kiss of the Spider Woman. 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and ... read more Tom Celner is an award-wining programmer, director, and designer for many of the industry’s most prominent artists, he is also an experienced product development manager, with a specialization in console development / manufacturing. He is the Business Development Manager of Morpheous Lights. ... read more Designs film and video for live events. Credits include Ring of Fire (Studio Arena Theater); 700 Sundays (Broadway and La Jolla); Dracula, The Musical (Broadway and La Jolla); The Elephant Man (Broadway); Manon Lescaut (Washington Opera); Allegro; One Red Flower and Hedwig (Signature Theater); Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theater Company) Company; Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration), Spider-Man Live (national tour), Music From a Sparkling Planet (Drama Dept), Aeros (national tour) and Dinner with Friends (ACT). ... read more HOLLY-ANNE DEVLIN is an award-winning director, writer and producer based in New York City. She has been a part of the creative teams for mega-hit Broadway shows including Jersey Boys and Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, as well as dozens of National and International productions and tours. She specializes in developing musicals from inception and bringing them to a global audience as both a creative and a producer. Recent projects include global hits Wine Lovers The Musical, the world’s first wine tasting musical seen by over two million people after opening Off Broadway in New York in 2005, and ... read more Broadway: Jersey Boys, Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg, Master Harold And The Boys, Present Laughter, A Doll's House. Venues: Roundabout, M.T.C., Playwrights, Atlantic, The New Group, M.C.C., The Public, Second Stage, Williamstown, Yale Rep., McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center, Long Wharf, Westport. Film Contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad Of Bettie Page, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Boy's Don't Cry. ... read more Todd Edward Ivins designs dance, opera, plays, musicals, television, & corporate events. Favorites: Circus 1903 (International Tour), Mirror Mirror (sets & costumes, Milwaukee Ballet), Othello MC (sets & costumes, Milwaukee Rep), Les Miserables (Walnut Street Theatre), Into the Woods (Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre), Bright Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theatre), Five Presidents (Arizona Theatre Company). Todd is an Associate Artist at the Milwaukee Rep.  Love to my muses, Agatha and Abigail. www.ivinsart.com ... read more Karl Mansfield is a musician and music director. Broadway credits include Dracula, La Boheme, Sweet Charity, Coram Boy, Xanadu, Baby It's You, and American Utopia. ... read more McAnuff is a two-time Tony Award-winning director and former Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival. Broadway: Summer, Doctor Zhivago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention, Jersey Boys (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical), Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays (Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event), Dracula, the Musical, How to Succeed..., The Who’s Tommy (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Director), A Walk in the Woods, Big River (Tony Awards for Best Director, Best Musical). McAnuff is also Director Emeritus of La Jolla Playhouse, where during his tenure as Artistic Director, he staged more than 35 ... read more Recent Broadway: Lennon, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Hairspray, Movin’ Out, Sweet Charity, Good Vibrations, Dracula, Caroline or Change, Little Shop…, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd St, Urinetown, Nine, La Boheme, Big River, Boys From Syracuse, Look of Love, Urban Cowboy, Never Gonna Dance, Thou Shalt Not, By Jeeves, Follies, Oklahoma!, Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror Show, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Swing!, Parade, Footloose, Kat and the Kings, Civil War, Triumph of Love. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. ... read more More than 30 Broadway shows since 2000 including Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination), The Merchant of Venice, Lombardi, Fences (Tony nomination), The Addams Family, Ragtime, Hair (Tony nomination), In the Heights (Tony nomination), [title of show], Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line (2006), The Drowsy Chaperone, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python's Spamalot, Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and La Bohème. Acme is Tom Clark, Mark Menard, Nevin Steinbergand Sten Severson. ... read more Steve received wide critical praise, as both Fight Director and Actor, in the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theatre’s Henry IV directed by Jack O’Brien. Other Broadway: Dracula the Musical (Des McAnuff, director), Twelfth Night, Two Shakespearean Actors (LCT), Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound (Roundabout), Getting Away With Murder, The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: The Night Hank Williams Died, Below The Belt. New York audiences last saw Mr. Rankin’s work in the Metropolitan Opera Company’s production of Handel’s Rodelinda starring Rene Fleming. ... read more Broadway: Mamma Mia, Guys and Dolls, LoveMusik, Dracula, Beauty and the Beast. Off-Broadway: The Blue Flower (Second Stage), The Boys in the Band (Transport Group). Nationally: White Christmas, Les Miserables. Regional: Constellations, Bells Are Ringing (Berkshire Theatre Festival), A Funny Thing…Forum (Two River Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival). TV: Elementary, The Good Wife. grahamrowat.com, @grahamny. ... read more MEGAN SIKORA was raised in Pittsburgh, PA where she went on to attend Point Park University receiving a BA in Dance. She then moved to New York to pursue her dreams of being a professional dancer. After some humble beginnings at the Startbucks on 47th and Broadway and selling programs outside of Broadway shows she couldn’t get into, Megan finally got her first break as a Radio City Ensemble Dancer (too short to be a Rockette). After two seasons with RC and two summers at Sacramento Music Circus, Megan landed a part in Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party at MTC. ... read more A producing partnership made up of Michael David, Edward Strong, Rocco Landesman and Des McAnuff. Originated at BAM in 1978, migrated to NY Shakespeare Festival, then off and on Broadway, where they've shared in a host of Tony and Obie Awards. On Broadway: Currently: Jersey Boys. Also: The Farnsworth Invention, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Dracula, Good Vibrations, Into the Woods (Original and '02), The Music Man, Blast!, Titanic, Wrong Mountain, Footloose, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, High Society, 1776, ...Forum, The King and I, The Who's Tommy, Ralph Fiennes' Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Once Upon a Mattress, How to Succeed in Business..., ... read more Joop van den Ende was born in Amsterdam on February 23, 1942. Career as television producer In 1983, after having produced various plays and theatre shows, Joop van den Ende founded one of the most successful and legendary television companies in the Netherlands. In 1993, his activities as TV producer merged into television company Endemol. Endemol is known for launching the worldwide reality-show craze with the creation of TV formats such as Big Brother and Fear Factor. In 2000, Van den Ende sold Endemol in order to focus fully on theatre. Career as theatre producer From the end of the eighties, Van den ... read more Catherine Zuber received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for her work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Her select Broadway credits include Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady (Tony, Drama Desk & OCC Awards), Oslo, War Paint (Drama Desk & OCC awards), Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I (Olivier, Tony and OCC awards), Gigi (Drama Desk Award), The Royal Family (Tony Award), South Pacific (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award), Awake and Sing! (Tony Award). She is a 2017 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Lifetime ... read more